SGR States

A state is the third tier of the political structure used in the Second Galactic Republic, above Local Areas and City/Towns. They will contain approximately 1000 Local Areas, and each state provides a single statesman to stand in the Planetary Council that oversee's the planet as a whole. These statesmen are voted in by the Councilmen within the state.

Each state is drawn up by mathematical algorithms, which will always produce states that contain as close to 100 million people as possible. This means that the number of states is entirely dependent on the population of a planet, with one-state planets existing for small colony or mining worlds.

Due to the random nature of population movement and growth, each election the states are redrawn by the algorithms, and as a result Local Groups can find themselves forming a part of a new state fairly often.